An estimated 31,000 manufacturing jobs will become available in the Fort Worth-Dallas metroplex by 2030, according to the Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, an organization based at the University of Texas at Arlington that supports the local manufacturing industry.
Job growth in manufacturing has been primarily driven by an industrywide pivot to reshoring or nearshoring, which refers to returning manufacturing, production or service operations to a company’s home country or to a nearby country.
The pivot away from offshoring has been a national trend. The Dallas Federal Reserve Bank published a series of articles describing how “emerging U.S. worldview involves a more assertive use of tariff and trade policies and a growing emphasis on nearshoring and reshoring as tools to strengthen supply chains and boost the U.S. economy.”…